Festive Left Friday Blogging Too: Chavecito in Russia
He was there on a working visit, but it's still festive--he inaugurated the Simon Bolivar Latin American Cultural Centre in Moscow, and got a lot of love from the locals--especially some ladies who showed up wearing floral crowns in the colors of the Venezuelan flag. No purchase of nuclear weapons or subs, contrary to all the flap-and-squawk going on in the US media. But there WAS talk of getting Russian expertise on gas and oil extraction, and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if Lukoil, the Russian firm, stepped in where ConocoPhillips (in a fit of cutting off its nose to spite its face) buggered off. Their loss is sure to be someone's gain, and I have a strong feeling that that someone is Russian.